ASHTANGA INTENSIVE

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Ashtanga Yoga is a modern variety of Yoga closely related to Iyengar, Vinyasa Power, and a few others. It is a fast, dynamic, athletic, physically intense approach to Yoga which seems at first to lay emphasis on physical culture, rather than esoteric gains. Many people within the more spiritual lineages of Yoga hold a mild disdain for Ashtanga, considering it a mere form of Indian aerobics or some sort of contortionism. Unfortunately, Ashtanga is actually taught this way in many parts of the world.

Agama Yoga, however, from its standpoint as an eminently spiritual lineage of Yoga, is interested in extracting the deeper essence of every practice whenever possible. Teachers specialized in the Agama Yoga style, who have additionally practiced the Ashtanga discipline for years, have managed to understand the subtle connections that can be made between its methods and traditional accomplishments from esoteric Yoga.

Thus today, for people interested in a more physically intense approach to Yoga, Agama is able to present a fusion course that will follow the teachings of Ashtanga Yoga and at the same time offer subtle understandings and the focus upon energy circulation as in traditional Tantric Yoga.